Great European Gardens
Author: Sven-Ingvar Andersson
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9788774073390
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Sven-Ingvar Andersson
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9788774073390
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Clemens M. Steenbergen
Publisher: Birkhauser
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 3764303352
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An analysis of trends in landscape design and architecture in Italy, France and Great Britain throughout the past 500 years. 384 pp., 300 line drawings, 100 photographs and 16 pages of color illus.
Author: George Plumptre
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Versailles, Nymphenburg, Hampton Court, Schonbrunn, Het Loo - some of the most famous gardens in history were created by European royalty during the last three hundred years. This fascinating and wide-ranging network of historically influential, recently restored, and contemporary gardens from Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Austria, Belgium, Russia, Sweden, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Poland, Denmark, and Spain is collected for the first time in Royal Gardens of Europe. A lavishly illustrated volume, it includes not only well-known gardens such as Charlottenburg and Peterhof, much admired for their splendor, but also lesser-known landscapes created by royalty in recent decades - gardens that are just as impressive as their predecessors, but that set out to create intimacy rather than extravagant display."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: John Dixon Hunt
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780500510858
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The "picturesque" or "natural" garden was the rage in eighteenth-century Europe. Inspired by painting, it also reflected changing attitudes to nature. Largely created and crafted in England, it was exported to other countries, which strove to adapt its forms to local conditions. This is the first book about that famous episode in garden history to look at the larger, European map of landscape design. The book traces the rise of the picturesque garden in England, exploring intricate dialogues between practical place-making and the theoretical formulations of the picturesque that began with Alexander Pope and Joseph Addison and ended with the writings of William Gilpin, Uvedale Price, and Richard Payne Knight in the 1790s. It surveys a wide range of sites -- Rousham, Stourhead, Kew, Hestercombe, The Leasowes, and Hafod, among others -- and the contributions to their creation by both amateurs and professionals. Europeans visited and wrote about many of these famous English landscapes. But the impact on European countries of the English example was complicated by the parallel rise of a picturesque garden in France, which had its own cultural direction even while it looked to England and China for inspiration. The French produced a crop of theoretical essays on the new "modern" garden as well as a set of astonishing designs -- Mereville, Desert de Retz, Monceau, Moulin-Joli, Ermenonville -- that were wholly and distinctly French, despite some superficial similarities with English creations. Finally, the book surveys the impact of English and French design upon other countries, in particular Sweden, the German-speaking lands, and Russia. The range of effect that could be created onEuropean sites is considerable and belies the notion that the picturesque was simply a process of making 3-D pictures in the landscape.
Author: Carolyn Mullet
Publisher: Timber Press
Published: 2020-12-08
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 1604698462
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A bucket list tour of Europe’s private gardens Acres of white-blooming garden rooms on the island of Mallorca. A seven-tiered wonder of stone, plants, and water above Germany’s Rhine River. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation in a quiet Scottish valley. These sumptuous landscapes are just three of the fifty destinations you’ll visit on this exclusive tour of Europe’s most beautiful private gardens. From Belgium to Ireland, Scandinavia to Wales, Carolyn Mullet is your guide through intimate retreats normally off-limits to visitors. Short profiles introduce the intriguing owners and rich histories of each garden and the land they inhabit. Among the featured gardens are works of eminent designers such as Tom Stuart-Smith, Andy Malengier, and Louis Benech. Whether you love exploring faraway places or creating your own landscape haven at home, Adventures in Eden is the ideal armchair getaway—glimpses into personal garden artistry that are sure to spark inspiration.
Author: Thomas Henry Duke Turner
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780415496841
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the second of Turner's books dealing with the history of garden design following on from Asian Gardens: History, Beliefs and Design (published by Routledge in 2010). European Gardens: History, Philosophy and Design is an expanded version of the original Garden History book, published in 2005. It features new illustrations and additional text. Further details of all the gardens are available on the gardenvisit.com website, which the author edits. --Book Jacket.
Author: Mariella Zoppi
Publisher: Alinea Editrice
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 8860554373
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Charles Quest-Ritson
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9781876473303
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →European gardens provide the greatest single influence upon gardening throughout the world and this survey ranges from Ireland to Georgia and from Russia to Sicily. Over 600 gardens are included-the definitive reference to most of the great gardens of the world. Also includes a shortlist of the Great Gardens of Europe and a Plants Collections Guide.